Saturday, June 6, 2009

Torah Study Tweets 6-7-09

  1. Out of time today for now...end of Torah study for now
  2. But he's going to be a Nazirite until the day he dies... He knew Delilah would cut his hair. Maybe humans can't deal with gifts from God!
  3. Hair had nothing to do with his strength. There are so many extremes one cannot hardly able to find the center.
  4. There are limits beyond where a super hero can go...
  5. I want the super hero option but I don't want to have to use it...
  6. source of his strength was his hair? Hair was gift of God, not his zealotry when hair was cut did He leave him? charismatic=extraordinary
  7. Narcissistic hypocrisy is what the story is really about... Most zealots fall in their own dogmatic hypocrisy.
  8. Samson likes the philistine Delilah...oops! Mixed marriage...he's supposed to free Jews from them, not defy the baseline of story!
  9. Extremists are visionaries that shift us back to the center...they are so necessary!
  10. Judaism is full of extremists... Each one of the Biblical characters are extremists!
  11. Change destiny!
  12. This time its different, the angle comes to th wife. Angle frightens her, he doesn't share his name. Kabbalisticly she urges to bear, to
  13. People who belong to God...Kohanim (also Isaac, Samson too)
  14. Sarah also was visited this way... The Annunciation. Sarah gives birth at 90...? Fine. Beyond the norm of fertility...ok.
  15. What's an angel? Not a hallmark figurine...
  16. His hair shall never be cut...he will begin to liberate Israel from the Philistines... Is Mom happy about the angels words? Hmmm frightening
  17. Trouble tweeting in this room...
  18. Can't predetermine destiny...theme of bareness/procreation surfaces... Life/morality...
  19. Unreconsialble relationships...part 1 the Annunciation...she will bear a Nazorite son...no razor must touch his head...must be till death...
  20. Samson & Delilah...construct of Judges...what are some themes? Philistines (evil guys) - like Gaza...Goliath. Beng beyond reconsilliation...
  21. Role of Samson. Hoftorah, Judges 13:2-25...

1 comments:

Wyman said...

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